The MTI Educational Foundation is excited to announce an update on its year-end fundraising campaign. Between the FNA 2018 donation, MTI matching campaign, and member contributions from the Rick Deibel Challenge, the Foundation has raised $116,200 as of this week. The Foundation would like to... Continue Reading
A smarter approach to industrial safety can increase productivity and uptime, and enhance safety. Industrial safety gets a bad rap as being a detriment to productivity. But what if you could use safety to better understand and improve the performance of your operations? Smart safety can help you... Continue Reading
ISM manufacturing index leaps to 61.3% in August. U.S. manufacturers are putting the pedal to the metal - except, that is, for suppliers of metals hurt by recent tariffs. The numbers: American manufacturers are on a roll: business conditions surged in August to a 14-year high, according to a... Continue Reading
Tight labor market pushes companies to invest in teaching current workers to do more sophisticated tasks. Dwayne Mace has been a painter and a construction worker throughout his 37 years at Lamar Advertising Co. Now he’s a digital billboard repairman training the next generation of... Continue Reading
Elon Musk had a dream: a car factory that looked more “alien” than human, with hundreds of robots working cooperatively on the assembly line like a hyper-efficient hive. A handful of humans would oversee the work, but for the most part, the manufacturing of Tesla’s Model 3... Continue Reading
The aerospace industry has always been a difficult market for start-ups to break into, going all the way back to Glenn Curtiss and the surprisingly litigious Wright Brothers. Today, the challenge doesn’t come from intellectual property or competing with giants like Boeing and Lockheed... Continue Reading
Many jobs require employees to constantly lift, move, and work with heavy objects, all while standing for long periods of time. When all of these factors are coupled, it can result in potentially fatal injuries that start with the feet and work their way up the body, affecting knees, hips, and... Continue Reading
Risk nightmares can occur if you're not prepared for an environmental emergency. Disasters can happen in the blink of an eye. Whether natural, environmental, or just some freak accident, how your business responds to these occurrences can be the difference between successful risk mitigation and... Continue Reading
The price of energy is an important component to any form of large-scale industrial production. Natural gas has long been a chief source of energy for many industrial users, but it has become even more attractive lately given the sustained low-price environment. Improvements in shale gas... Continue Reading
Originally Posted by Rick Kaletsky A wealth of the “same old” classic hazards have not been properly dealt with in the heat treat industry. It is critical to address these basic (often severe) risks/violations rather than simply trying to identify new-to-the-forefront... Continue Reading
(Bloomberg) -- Instead of displacing American workers, robots may soon make many of their jobs more efficient. Intelligent machines increasingly scooting across America’s warehouse floors show just how. Companies use automated transporters to move packages without a human forklift driver. A... Continue Reading
MTI is excited to announce it graduated another 32 executives from the 2018 YES Management Training Program in Indianapolis, IN during the MTI Fall Meeting. As each of the 32 executives’ names were read off to come to the podium to receive their graduation certificates on the final night,... Continue Reading
